英语词汇schooner的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	schooner
词源	schooner. “Oh, how she scoons!” an admirer is supposed to have exclaimed when Captain Andrew Robinson of Gloucester, Massachusetts, launched the first vessel of this kind back in 1713 as she glided gracefully over the water. Robinson, over- hearing the remark, called his ship a scooner, which came to be misspelled schooner within a year. Scoon itself probably derives from the Scottish scon, “to skip a flat stone over the water,” as in the game ducks and drakes.
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